Word: expertly
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...Nonsense," says Daniel Moynihan, the New York Senator and a leading expert on social decay. "We really don't know what to do, and anyone who thinks that cutting benefits can affect sexual behavior doesn't know human nature...
...retire rather than run in 1996. That would make the Democrats' quest to regain control of the House in 1996 little more than a pipe dream. "To gain the seats the Democrats need to be the majority in the House will be really, really, really hard," said congressional expert Charles Cook. Two weeks ago, he put their chances at 30% to 35%; now his assessment is down...
...charges that the Air Force has tended to distort and cover up information in its investigation of the incident as well as other accidents involving military aircraft. Senior Army pilots flying in Iraq on the day of the shoot-down discovered the coding glitch after they were called as expert witnesses at the court-martial of Air Force Captain Jim Wang. A top officer aboard the AWACS reconnaissance plane coordinating U.S. aircraft in the region, Wang was cleared last week of all charges in connection with the shoot-down. As the Army pilots watched the proceedings unfold, they were stunned...
...Japanese protectionism, they would not push any trade dispute to the breaking point. In particular, they believed the U.S. must always keep its markets open, whatever its trading partners did--partly out of free-trade principle, partly as a way to reward anticommunist allies. Japan, for its part, grew expert at offering just enough--for example, "voluntary" quotas on auto exports in the early 1980s--to keep the U.S. grumpily mollified, while backing Washington all the way in world diplomacy...
Professor of English Marjorie Garber, a Shakespeare expert and cultural critic, is a frequent contributor to The New York Times op-ed page. A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler, an unparalleled expert on poetry, writes for the New Yorker and other publications. The author of the recent book "Soul Says," Vendler is also a contributor to the New York Times Sunday Book Review section. (In June, Vendler reviewed Bill Moyer's new book, "A Festival of Poets...